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Abed Al Ahad, Mary
Demšar, Urška
Sullivan, Frank
Kulu, Hill
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Received: 8 October 2022
Accepted: 9 May 2023
First Online: 16 May 2023
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: This paper is part of a PhD project that was granted ethical approval on the 14th of May 2020 by the School of Geography and Sustainable Development Ethics Committee, acting on behalf of the University Teaching and Research Ethics Committee (UTREC) of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom. This paper uses secondary data from the “Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study” which was collected by the University of Essex and can be downloaded from the UK Data Archive. Thus, obtaining informed consent solely for this study is not applicable and was waived by the School of Geography and Sustainable Development Ethics Committee, acting on behalf of the University Teaching and Research Ethics Committee (UTREC) of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom. Informed consent was however asked from the individuals participating in the Understanding Society study during the primary data collection which was carried out by the University of Essex. The University of Essex Ethics Committee has approved all data collection on Understanding Society main study and innovation panel waves, including asking individuals’ consent for all data linkages except to health records. Requesting consent for health record linkage was approved at Wave 1 by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Oxfordshire REC A (08/H0604/124), at BHPS Wave 18 by the NRES Royal Free Hospital & Medical School (08/H0720/60) and at Wave 4 by NRES Southampton REC A (11/SC/0274). Approval for the collection of biosocial data by trained nurses in Waves 2 and 3 of the main survey was obtained from the National Research Ethics Service (Understanding Society—UK Household Longitudinal Study: A Biosocial Component, Oxfordshire A REC, Reference: 10/H0604/2).The authors confirm that all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations in the Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
